QUOTE (X-Offender @ Oct 25 2023, 10:05 PM)
Before PSG's third goal both teams had created 11 chances each. PSG had 6 shots on target vs 4 ours. 7-7 corner kicks. Sure, everyone and their grandmas know PSG are far superior in terms of quality. I mean, they have the luxury of benching guys like Fabian Ruiz and Goncalo Ramos. We're playing with f*cking Krunic and Giroud!
But the thing I'm trying to say is that we created chances, we're just too sh*t upfront to capitalize them. And that's why we don't deserve to play this competition.
It felt like it was much more in PSG's side watching the game without looking at the statistics. They have 3 explosive players in attack. It's going to be difficult to contain on any given day. Their mids are okay, the young one being the most impressive out of all of them. But as a group, they are not impressive. We had opportunities where a much better decision would have put us in great positions to score. But every time, the pass was either behind, wrong, or just plain idiotic.
Krunic and Giroud cost us the game thanks to their stupid passing. Before that I thought we started out stronger.
And how do you start Krunic after the disasterclass of a cameo he had against Juve??? Just blows my mind!
As for deserving to be in the competition. Sometimes you just have sh!t luck in front of goal, as what happened in the first 2 games. A few inches to the left or right on those chances and we would be sitting on 6 no, not a measly 2 and bottom of the group.
I'm still more mad about the Juve game than this tbh. It was always going to be a tough ask to win in France. But going there after playing for 60 minutes with 10 against Juve, having to travel and with players missing; I had pretty much given up on this game already
I think we made a lot of good decisions this summer. The Tonali one being chief among them. But we were also very much negligent in other areas. Not replacing Bennacer properly, who we knew would be out until next year and not replacing Giroud and expecting him to be the main striker was negligent.
I blame the DM decision on Pioli most of all because he insisted that Krunic could do it, when he clearly cannot. Not against the top sides.
And the striker we just left too late into the window and we f@cked it up. We actually managed to make a bad situation worse by sending Colombo on loan and bringing in a former player instead of trusting our youngster who has a lot of potential and is a strong athlete as well.